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  • A corrupt old man tries to seduce a woman by urging her to take a hypnotic draught in her drink. Coloured lithograph by C. Motte.
  • A corrupt old man tries to seduce a woman by urging her to take a hypnotic draught in her drink. Coloured lithograph by C. Motte.
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    Erigone plucks at grapes supplied by cupids. Engraving by P.C. Levesque after J.B. Deshays.

    Deshays, Jean Baptiste, 1729-1765. | Date: [between 1700 and 1799] | Reference: 2853736i
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    Bacchus squeezes grapes into a dish in order to inebriate and rape Erigone. Etching, 17--.

    | Date: [between 1700 and 1799] | Reference: 2853717i
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    A corrupt old man tries to seduce a woman by urging her to take a hypnotic draught in her drink. Coloured lithograph by C. Motte.

    Motte, Charles Etienne Pierre, 1784-1836. | Date: [1821] | Reference: 5114i
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